As a potential Democratic wave looms, Trump's DOJ angles for last-minute power over midterms
The administration faces courtroom setbacks as judges block efforts to flag suspected noncitizen ballots and expand federal election monitoring.
- On Monday, the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to force California to set aside 20,000 ballots from suspected noncitizens, escalating efforts to assert federal authority over state-run elections.
- Claiming actions protect against noncitizen voting, the Trump administration expanded its monitoring program to include federal law enforcement agents, despite researchers finding such voting is rare and does not impact election outcomes.
- Federal judges have blocked administration efforts on multiple fronts: Judge Trina Thompson, an appointee of President Joe Biden in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, issued a restraining order preventing prosecution threats against election workers.
- The NAACP alleges federal monitor deployments will intimidate voters, while Common Cause has deployed more than 21,000 election protection volunteers to monitor polling locations and assist voters on Election Day.
- With Election Day nearing, the administration's legal challenges face a firewall of state election officials and courts, while critics have mapped scenarios for potential disruptions following the president's rhetoric about voting integrity.
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As a potential Democratic wave looms, Trump’s DOJ angles for last-minute power over midterms
American democracy faces one of its biggest stress tests of the modern era, as President Donald Trump’s sprawling campaign for power over elections encounters a firewall of judges, state election workers and voting rights leaders heading into Election Day. A cascade of courtroom losses over the weekend dealt a major blow to the Trump administration’s […]
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As a potential Democratic wave looms, Trump's DOJ angles for last-minute power over midterms
American democracy faces one of its biggest stress tests of the modern era, as President Donald Trump’s sprawling campaign for power over elections encounters a firewall of judges, state election workers and voting rights leaders heading into Election Day. A cascade of courtroom losses over the weekend dealt a major blow to the Trump administration’s […]
As a potential Democratic wave looms, Trump's DOJ angles for last-minute power over midterms • West Virginia Watch
American democracy faces one of its biggest stress tests of the modern era, as President Donald Trump’s sprawling campaign for power over elections encounters a firewall of judges, state election workers and voting rights leaders heading into Election Day. A cascade of courtroom losses over the weekend dealt a major blow to the Trump administration’s […]
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